Building Relationships and Helping People 2016

(The
year of Disruptive Thinking)

I'm
not sure how many of you followed my BR&H 2015 efforts, but for
those of you who didn't you missed out.

What I've been working on
for the last 2 years is selecting people at the start of the new
year and working on "Building a Relationship" with them and "Helping
them" in some way within the year.

Last
year I selected 15 (It started out 10, but I went a little overboard
with it and decided to add 5 more people to the list just because they
are all great people I wanted to learn from.) people who I wanted to
have as virtual mentors and to learn from.

Of those 15 people I
selected I built really good relationships with 2 of them and was able
to help 4 of them with one of their major initiatives last
year.

I
know what you're thinking he choose 15 to engage with and he only
built relationships with 2 and was only able to help 4 of them with their efforts last year... That doesn't sound like to good of an
outcome.

And
my response would be to take a look at the 15 people I chose
for 2015, and once you do I think getting to know 2 really well and
being able to help 4 is not so bad.

But
what does that have to do with this year?

I'm going to do it
all over again. But with some changes this time.

What I learned from last
year was that 15 was just to many to try and work on at one time.

I learned that some people are
just more willing to engage then other people.

I learned
that some people just aren't going to see the value you can bring to
them until they know who you are.

So I changed it up this year and what I'm doing is I have selected 5 people this year, and
I'm coming up with a very specific theme for myself for this year to
help me focus.

My goal is still going to be the
same of "Building a Strong Relationship" with these people and also to "Help" each of them in some way in 2016. But my personal focus will be a
little different and that's why I chose these 5 people.

This
years theme for me is going to be"Disruptive Thinking", and these 5
people I know will help me see things in a different way.

I'm
excited to get started building a relationship with these 5 people
and I can't wait to learn from them and also to find a way to help each of them in
2016.

My
5 people this year are:

So
if you didn't follow my journey last year, I hope you will join me
and follow my journey this year.

I'm sure it will be a wild and
exciting ride as always and I'm looking forward to learning, and helping each of these great people.

*If
by chance you choose to do your own journey this year with people
that you want to learn from please leave me a comment and tell me who
you've chosen. I'd love it if you'd let me follow your journey in 2016.